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THESE are the limits of Phrygia. We return again to
the Propontis, and to the sea-coast adjoining the Æsepus,1
and shall observe, in our description of places, the same order
as before.

The first country which presents itself on the sea-coast is
the Troad.2 Although it is deserted, and covered with ruins,
yet it is so celebrated as to furnish a writer with no ordinary
excuse for expatiating on its history. But we ought not only
to be excused, but encouraged, for the reader should not impute the fault of prolixity to us, but to those whose curiosity
and desire of information respecting the celebrated places of
antiquity is to be gratified. The prolixity is greater than it
would be otherwise, from the great number of nations, both
Greeks and Barbarians, who have occupied the country, and
from the disagreement among writers, who do not relate the
same things of the same persons and places, nor even do they
express themselves with clearness. Among these in particular
is Homer, who suggests occasions for conjecture in the greatest part of his local descriptions. We are therefore to examine what the poet and other writers advance, premising a
summary description of the nature of the places.

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